Contrary to what some politicians and experts may say, Israel did not start this conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a evil proxy controlled by Iran.
On Oct. 8, 2023, while Israel was trying to count the dead, the kidnapped, and the brutalized, and was still battling the Hamas terrorists that invaded the country the day prior, Hezbollah opened a” second front” against Israel to help Hamas and has n’t stopped firing rockets since. For 10 times, over 60, 000 residents have been forced to flee from their houses in the North and lived in hotels in central Israel, displaced and terrible deaths, as Israel worked to love Hamas in Gaza.
However, Israel has conducted one of its most impressive military operations in modern history in recent weeks after months of endured attacks that different nations would have reacted by launching their own neighbors much earlier.
Exactly two weeks after Israel thwarted a large and dangerous rocket attack only minutes before it was scheduled, thousands of beepers started erupting in Lebanon on a sluggish Tuesday. Amazingly, Israel appears to have been aware of Hezbollah’s tries to use low-tech communication methods and entered the supply network that the terror group used to get its unlawful communication tools. Therefore they waited for Hezbollah to hand the pagers to the jihadists before they were unable to hurt Israel. The next day, they repeated the procedure, this day with walkie-talkies. And when Hezbollah’s officials met days afterward to discuss their plans to invade Northern Israel, the IDF attacked and overthrow basically all of the evil group’s officials, bad individuals who had caused the deaths of hundreds, including lots of Americans, at the meeting. Israel has struck hundreds of military targets in the past few days, severely harmed Hezbollah’s capacity to terrify the world.
But Israel was n’t finished. Israel destroyed the Hezbollah office in Beirut hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finished speaking at the UN General Assembly in a house deliberately emptied of the world’s worst performers who had exited the space in a show of support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the evil organization responsible for the murder of countless innocent Immigrants, Christians, and Muslims around the world, was effectively eliminated by the procedure.
Despite Israel’s spectacular military prowess, politicians and pundits were quick to make up their tunes with their cries for outrage and caution. The only Jewish state in the world was the one that had been hiding for months behind the mask of humanitarian calls for caution and the clear targeting of army combatants had to make a fresh smear. They accused Israel of violence, invading a sovereign country, and racially cleansing Lebanon.
However, this mistaken analysis just makes the obvious clear and impresses those who already aim to crush Israel at every chance.
Israel and the Syrian people are not at war here. Instead, it is a conflict between Israel and a criminal organization that has taken control of Lebanon and is acting in accordance with requests from Tehran’s mullahs, who are sitting mournfully there.
Hezbollah has provoked and attacked Israel for decades in the hopes of destroying Israel and eventually the United States, but it bravely did not do so. In accordance with the United Nations resolution signed in 2006, which would help the people of Northern Israel to return home, Israel repeatedly warned Hezbollah to stop and surrender to the Litani River.
Otherwise, Hezbollah decided to destroy Lebanon. They swore to use the Syrian people as human shields by planting weapons inside population centers, which sparked a full-fledged conflict with Israel that the Lebanese people largely opposed. Hundreds have been killed and injured as a result of their regular, deadly, indiscriminate attacks, as witnessed most cruelly in Majdal Shams’s tragic murder of 12 Druze children playing soccer there in July.
The Iron Dome’s wonderful protective abilities can largely be attributed to Israel’s comparative restraint in the face of Hezbollah’s continuing aggression. Unintentionally, this innovative defense system has sown the impression that Israel can tolerate such violence continuously despite reducing the instant human impact of rocket attacks. The earth, witnessing Israel’s capacity to capture most coming threats, has grown accustomed to this incident, generally ignoring the deeper implications of allowing sustained hostility to endure uncontested. This pattern has created a dangerous standardization of violence, where Israel is expected to continue to experience conflicts without any response, which has only strengthened its numerous adversaries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, far condemned on the global stage as unsafe extremists, have displayed a steady and amicable tone in the face of Hezbollah’s war of attrition. They have been making repeated attempts to calm the conflict for a year, even as Hezbollah leadership promised to keep the conflict from getting worse and worse.
How long would the United States tolerate persistent, unstoppable attacks from Mexico’s cross-border borders? How long would North Korean attacks continue to be tolerated by South Korea? Even though there would be an immediate war in those circumstances, Netanyahu and his government have shown incredible restraint in the same circumstance and are not to be given credit for it. The IDF has done far more to defend the innocent Lebanese victims of Hezbollah than any other army in Israel has ever done even before the war started.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that is funded by America’s allies and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans. They have destabilized the Middle East, and the world, for four decades. They actively work to kill every last apostate in the world with genocidal intentions.
Hezbollah, the most sophisticated and deadly terrorist organization in the world, is the one that, in addition to Al Qaeda, has carried out the most deadly attacks on Americans. Every day Israel fights and defeats Hezbollah on its own territory is another day we do n’t have to fight them on ours. Even if the world is too shortsighted to notice it, Israel is doing it a favor.
Those who disagree with how Israel is conducting this conflict expose themselves as reflexive anti-Israel radicals whose views are viewed through that lens. The rest of the moral world will be by our side as Israel removes the world’s greatest threat from those who have held the world hostage for far too long, allowing us to enter a new era and a chance for peace.
Yonatan Hambourger, a rabbi and author, works for Chabad of Rural Georgia to assist spiritual seekers of all faiths. You can reach him at y@tasteoftorah .org.